A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

Under Gaza’s cratered skyline and Ramallah’s tense checkpoints, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges delivers an unflinching chronicle of life under siege in A Genocide Foretold, weaving together on-the-ground dispatches from Ramallah in July 2024, vivid portraits of Gazan families racing from approaching bombs, and the young resilience of Amr—a 17-year-old high-schooler forced to flee his ancestral village. Hedges excavates the roots of dispossession in Zionist ideology, traces the state-sanctioned destruction of hospitals, schools, and cultural sites, and offers a searing psychoanalysis of permanent war that all too often weaponizes collective retribution against innocent civilians. Through personal testimonies, historical context, and his own seven years as The New York Times’ Middle East Bureau Chief, he exposes how systemic oppression and occupation erode basic Human Rights and Political Justice, while also illuminating the heroic resistance that pulses beneath every rubble-strewn street. The final “Letter to the Children of Gaza” transforms reportage into a moral imperative, urging readers not merely to listen but to act. Tap the external link button below to explore purchase and rental options.